The Most Bizarre Medical Tools from Back in the Day

Tonsil Guillotine

Imagine having your tonsils getting taken out by this thing?! Doctors in the mid-1800s would remove tonsils in patients with this bizarre device. Using this, patients would commonly hemorrhage and die.

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The More You Know

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